Honest craft beer reviews with no corporate sponsors and no bad takes. IPAs, stouts, lagers, sours — if it’s interesting, we drink it.
Stone Brewing built their identity on attitude — the gargoyle logo, the back-label prose about ales not being for the faint of heart, the naming…
In 2002, Oskar Blues became the first American craft brewery to can its own beer. Most of the industry thought they were insane. The conventional…
More people have been introduced to craft beer through Fat Tire than almost any other bottle. New Belgium’s flagship amber ale, named after a bicycle…
The session IPA is a style with a credibility problem. Making a beer hop-forward, flavorful, and under 4.5% ABV sounds like a marketing brief rather…
Dogfish Head’s 90 Minute gets most of the fame, but the 60 Minute is the workhorse — the one that made the brewery’s reputation for…
Saying you’re going to review Guinness Draught feels almost presumptuous — like reviewing the wheel. But Guinness rewards close attention, and it gets misunderstood more…
Before the hazy IPA era made fruit-forward, cloudy beer the dominant craft style, Allagash White was the beer that introduced a generation of Americans to…
Here’s a Birmingham beer story with an unusual ending: the brewery closed and the beer got harder to avoid. Uproot Brewing shut the doors on…
There are beers, and then there are legends. Russian River’s Pliny the Elder occupies rare territory — a beer that professionals and homebrewers alike use…
Some beers become institutions. Bell’s Two Hearted Ale — named after a trout stream in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — is one of them. It has…
